Shadow Play

This series explores the space between presence and absence through algorithmic generation, seeking to evoke a form of sympathy towards shapes and a possible path to stillness. “Shadow Play” emerges from the tradition of generative art, using aesthetic algorithms to produce an endless stream of compositions that get carefully filtered and selected from the digital flow. The works acknowledge that we can appreciate the properties of a shape - its outline, its rhythm, its balance - but we can never assess its true essence. Much like through introspection we are reduced to shadows ourselves, these pieces blur the boundaries between observer and observed, between ourselves and the ten thousand things. Inspired by Morandi’s quiet objects, these algorithmic forms carry the same contemplative weight, holding space for that deeper recognition that remains always just out of reach.

The process itself becomes meditative - the repetitive nature of coding and parameter adjustment creates a different kind of attention, while an artificial assessor learns to favor elegant forms and coherent compositions. What emerges are vase-like shapes that hover between being and not-being, caught in that limited universe of ones and zeros but somehow suggesting depths that go beyond their digital origins.

Each piece captures that strange quality where abstraction becomes more real than reality, where the shadow of a thing might reveal more about its essence than the thing itself. It’s the same search for something fundamental that runs through all this work - whether through corrosion eating away at metal or algorithms building up forms from pure possibility, always working in that space where our admiration of reality is somehow strengthened by the virtual.